When Gil Met Araveth: 653 words
BEGINNING LINE: Back in the WHEREVER, Gil barely felt the cold water when it was sluiced over her.
FAVORITE LINE: She raked her hands through her hair, and reclaimed Araveth’s TOKEN. The slave attending her glanced at it incuriously as she tucked it away, out of sight. Even if nobody cared, she wanted to keep it a ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted word counts in a while. Weeks, actually.

I haven't been writing much.

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Lying awake. I've got an 8:30 class tomorrow ( Read more... )

I Was a Feral Fan ( Read more... )

Nine years and eight days ago, I started work at Borders. It was just a "temporary" job, but in retrospect, it was the best thing that could have happened to me. There's no better education in the fact that publishing is a business than working in a bookstore.

I really wish that Mary W. Walters, the author of this article, had the same ( Read more... )

I'm at the point in my "career" when I'm trying to get a lot of work out there and circulating. But every time I've tried to do it before, I've faltered. I've only had one manuscript, The Coming Storm, out there on a semi-consistent basis. Leisure/Dorchester, my next destination for Unlocked, needs a synopsis (I hate synopses), City of Sun and ( Read more... )

I decided to take a week off from writing to work on cleaning my apartment. Because I'm getting annoyed by the mess, and because Grandmommie's been bitching about it. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But now, suddenly, I'm getting depressed. Which shouldn't be a surprise -- I need to write, I need to be creating ( Read more... )

So I entered the fangs_fur_fey hook contest on Thursday night; they were opening for submissions at 12:01am Eastern time, which is 9pm out here on the left coast. I waited until my computer's clock said 9:05 just to make sure I wasn't bounced, and then sent it ( Read more... )

... because I'm tired enough that trying to plod through the autopsy would be counterproductive ( Read more... )

I was talking with my friend Jen and I had an epiphany -- I'm really not doing everything I can to get published. I've got one novel out there and a whole backlog of first drafts sitting on various hard drives, and even if The Coming Storm gets published, well, that's it. That's all I've got ready to go ( Read more... )